This week on ART ON THE AIR our whole award winning encore show features Two-Time Grammy Award-winning pianist, diatonic harmonica player, composer, Howard Levy, spotlight on Lubeznik Art Festival

This week (7/31/26) on ART ON THE AIR our whole award winning encore show features Two-Time Grammy Award-winning pianist, diatonic harmonica player, composer, Howard Levy, who discovered how to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully chromatic instrument by developing techniques on it that had never existed before, enabling him to take the harmonica out of its usual role as a Folk and Blues instrument, and into the worlds of Jazz, Classical, Middle Eastern music and more. An original member of Bela Fleck’s The Flecktones, he is the world’s foremost artist on the harmonica with numerous albums to his credit including a concerto for harmonica and orchestra.Our spotlight is on the 2026 Lubeznik Art Festival August 15th and 16th Listen to ART ON THE AIR as a NPR podcast on Lakeshore Public Media for our hour-long conversation with our special guests at lakeshorepublicmedia.org/AOTA, that can also be heard over the radio on Fridays at 11am and Mondays at 5pm on WVLP 103.1FM (WVLP.org) or listen live at Tune In. Listen to past ART ON THE AIR shows at lakeshorepublicmedia.org/AOTA or brech.com/aota. Please have your friends send show feedback to Lakeshore at: [email protected] your questions about our show to [email protected] us on Facebook.com/artonthairwvlp to keep up to date about art issues in the Region. New and encore episodes also heard as podcasts on: NPR, Spotify Tune IN, Amazon Music, Apple and Google Podcasts, YouTube plus many other podcast platforms. Larry A Brechner & Ester Golden hosts of ART ON THE AIR.NPR Link: https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/art-on-the-air/2026-07-25/art-on-the-air-july-31-2026